Paper in Asia (RBS-Mellon Symposium)

Date:
30 January 2017Time: 2:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.Location: Current Periodicals Room, Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth CollegePresented by: Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and the Art History Department, Dartmouth College Library, and Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College

In association with the exhibition “Paper: A Material of Empire and Revolution in South Asia” on view in Dartmouth’s Baker-Berry Library through January 2017, we have invited scholars who touch on how paper as a material intertwines with the information that it carries.

Organized by Deborah Howe, Collections Conservator, Dartmouth College, and Holly Shaffer, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Dartmouth College, and Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School and the Art History Department, Dartmouth College Library, and Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College.